Bodyguard of Lies (thing)

Winston Churchill once said, "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." This statement is reminiscent of what Sir Garnet Wolseley wrote in The Soldier's Handbook (1869); "We are bred up to feel it a disgrace ever to succeed by falsehood... we will keep hammering along with the conviction that honesty is the best policy, and that truth always wins in the long run. These pretty little sentiments do well for a child's copy book, but a man who acts on them had better sheathe his sword forever."

Incidentally, "Bodyguard of Lies" is also a regular series of 6" x 9" digest-sized books for the Conspiracy XRPG. BOL started under New Millennium Entertainment as a hand-stapled photo-copied quarterly mailing, but when Eden Studios started publishing ConX in 1997, BOL got a facelift. Each is a forum for the game's fans, and includes rules additions and suggestions, new background material, game statisitics, missions and more.